(Minghui.org) Ms. Li Shoulan, 73, from Dazhou City, Sichuan Province, was arrested at the end of 2023 and was sentenced to five years for practicing Falun Gong, Minghui.org recently learned.
Ms. Li, a retired railroad employee, divides her time between her hometown and Ankang City, Shaanxi Province, where her daughter works. She was arrested in Ankang City at the end of 2023 and her family hasn’t receive any updates about her since. It wasn’t until late May 2025 that Minghui.org confirmed her prison sentence. She was transferred to prison but it’s not clear which one.
Since the onset of the persecution of Falun Gong by the Chinese Communist Party in 1999, Ms. Li has been constantly harassed by the authorities. Her parents, children, neighbors and friends were also implicated. The fear and mental distress took a toll on her husband’s health, eventually leading to his death. Her 93-year-old mother trembles in fear when she sees police.
On February 22, 2023, just months before Ms. Li’s latest arrest, she was arrested in Ankang and detained for ten days. The police suspected her of mailing a letter to Wang Hao, the mayor of Ankang, urging him not to persecute Falun Gong. The police even ransacked her in-law’s home and harassed her grandchild’s after-school tutor, ordering him to report any suspicious activities he saw the child’s family engaged in.
The police are not medical professionals, but they tried to examine Ms. Li’s eyes while she was detained. They brought in an eye exam instrument to shine a bright light in her eyes as one person pried open her upper eyelid and another pulled down her lower one. They apparently did not know how to operate the instrument but tried to for several hours until it broke. Ms. Li’s eyes still hurt more than two months after the incident.
She was released 12 days later and the police ordered her daughter to monitor her and not allow her to go out. See the related report for details of this arrest.
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